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England and Wales

Using Strategies to Locate a 19th Century Family in England (16 kb)

A guide to help you locate your family back in the Old Country.

British Army in the First World War

Information on how to research the service life of a British WWI soldier.

British Library Family History Service

Services for family historians from the National Library of the United Kingdom.

Connected Histories

A range of digital resources related to early modern and 19th Century Britain. Pay per view.

Cumbria

The Register Offices in the county of Cumbria, England, hold the original records of births, marriages and deaths back to the start of civil registration in 1837.

Curious Fox

The village by village contact site for anybody researching family history in the UK and Ireland. Use the search box to find your village or town.

Deceasedonline.com

Over half a million burial and cremation records for north and central London from the boroughs of Islington and Camden. Pay per view.

Essex Family History Society

Contains the names of thousands of people who lived within the County of Essex over hundreds of years.

findmypast.co.uk

UK birth, death and marriage records from 1837 to 2004. Pay per view unless used from library computers.

FreeBMD

The Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.

The Genealogist

One of the UK's leading companies offering family history information. Pay per view.

The General Register Office

The General Register Office is part of Her Majesty's Passport Office and oversees civil registration in England and Wales. They maintain the national archive of all births, marriages and deaths dating back to 1837.

GenUKI

Large collection of genealogical information for England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Hearth Tax Online

Data and analysis of the records of the hearth tax which was introduced in England and Wales by the government of Charles II in 1662.

The Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project

The Historic Hospital Admission Registers Project (HHARP) is the result of a partnership between Kingston University's Centre for the Historical Record (CHR) and various hospital archives in London and Glasgow. It began in 2001 and has records from the Hospital for Sick Children, London (subsequently, the Evelina Hospital, London), the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Hip Disease, London and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow.

Historical Directories

A digital library of local and trade directories for England and Wales from 1750 to 1919.

London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes

Gateway to the London, Belfast and Edinburgh Gazettes, the official newspapers of the records of the UK. Pay per view

London Lives

A database of 240,000 manuscripts from eight archives and 15 datasets, giving access to more than 3 million names.

London Metropolitan Archives Family History Services

Information relating to persons living north of the River Thames.

Lost Cousins: Putting Relatives In Touch

LostCousins finds living relatives, people who share your ancestors, and can help you discover more about your family tree.

National Archives

The UK Government's official archive, containing more than 1,000 years of history.

Naval-History.net

Lists the names of Royal Navy personnel who died in both world wars. The site also includes names of seamen who received honours and awards during the First World War.

Old British News

A researcher of the British press between 1750 and 1950, identify British newspaper stories and supply historic articles. This service is voluntary and free to use. He will find any articles and send you the news reports by  email as attachments.

Origins.net

Comprehensive British and Irish record collections dating back to the 13th Century. Pay per view.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674-1913

The largest body of texts ever published detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing accounts of more than 100,000 criminal trials held at London's Central Criminal Court.

Seventeenth-Century Hearth Tax Sources for London

Transcriptions of Hearth Tax returns covering London, Westminster and Middlesex for 1662, 1664 and 1666 via the British History Online website.

Welsh Newspapers Online

Site run by The National Library of Wales Aberystwyth. Discover 15 million articles and 1.1 million pages in both Welsh And English.